Tracing relatives helplines
Salvation Army – Family Tracing Service
Tel: 020 7367 4747
Email: family.tracing@salvationarmy.org.uk
The Family Tracing Service restores and sustains family relationships by locating relatives who have lost contact with each other, either recently or in the past. We know that for some clients searching for family is an emotional experience. With this in mind we provide a service that is professional, compassionate and non-judgemental, with support throughout the searching process. We are not able to become involved in searches for biological family, where adoption away from birth family has taken place, due to current UK legislation. We cannot look for children under 18 years of age, or other 'vulnerable' missing people where a physical search or police involvement would be more appropriate. Missing People Helpline: 116 000
Missing People specialise in bringing missing people back together with their families. They search on behalf of those left behind and offer support for all parties.
Reunite InternationalTel: 01162 556 234www.reunite.org is a UK charity specialising in international parental child abduction. Itstelephone advice line offers practical and impartial information and support toparents, family members and guardians who have had their child abducted as wellas to parents and guardians who may have abducted their children.Gov UK – The Adoption Contact RegisterAdoption Contact RegisterThe Adoption Contact Register puts adopted people and their birth relatives in touch with each other, if that is what they both wish. You can only find the whereabouts of an adoptedperson or birth relative if they have chosen to be entered on the ContactRegister. Applicants can also record a wish for specific or no contact with anamed individual. This resource will take you through the process.Adoption Search Reunionwww.adoptionsearchreunion.org.uk
This website is intended to be the first port of call for anyone thinking about searching for or making contact with birth and adopted relatives or researching an adoption that tookplace in the UK. Barnado’s
If you are an adopted person aged over 18 we can offer a comprehensive background history, which will include all the information held on file about your family of origin. Theopportunity to talk through, with a qualified social worker, your feelings, hopes, fears and any questions surrounding your adoption. To advise, assist and support those who wishto trace their birth relatives.Coram BAAFwww.corambaaf.org.uk How to trace birth family members
Tracing Birth Relatives pdfCoramBAAF is an independent membership organisation for professionals, foster carers and adopters, and anyone else working with or looking after children in or from care, or adults who have been affected by adoption. It is a successor organisation to the British Association for Adoption and Fostering (BAAF). Starting the process of searching for your birth relatives if you are adopted or grew up in care could be one of the most life-changing decisions you ever make. You will have no idea of the outcome when you start and the journey has often been described as an emotional rollercoaster - sometimes exciting, sometimes frustrating. It is therefore important to start a search at a time that is right foryou and to go at your own pace.NCH Action for ChildrenCall 0845 355 5533 to speak to one of our advisors, or to request an information pack.
www.actionforchildren.org.uk If you were previously in our care
We help those who were formerly in our care, adopted adults, former child migrants and former project service users to access their personal records. In addition we also offer aGenealogy service for relatives of former service users.Birthlink ScotlandTel: 0131 225 6441www.birthlink.org.uk
The Adoption Contact Register for Scotland is a confidential computeriseddatabase. The purpose of the Register is to put adopted people and their birthparents. Birthlink now provides an After Adoption Information Line for anyone with questions about after adoption issues. Service users include adopted adults, birth parents of people adopted as children and their family members, adoptive family members, local authority social workers, voluntary adoption agencies and other professionals. Our Care Connect service helps adults who were formerly ‘in care’; either growing up in the residential care of a local authority or in a foster family to accessinformation from records.The Care Leavers AssociationTel: 0161 826 0214www.careleavers.com
Careleavers Association helps people who have been in care get in touch with others theywere in care with as children. The Careleavers’ Association is a not-for-profit organisation run by care leavers for care leavers. Inter-country Adoption Centre
Advice Line: 0208 447 4753
www.icacentre.org.ukAdopted Adults
The Inter-country Adoption Centre is a registered charity and voluntary adoption agency, and the only specialist centre for inter-country adoption in the UK. We offer a variety of services to inter-country adoptees, to prospective and established adopters, to birthfamilies and to professionals. Our site details the services and we hope thatyou find it helpful and informative.